The examples in (1) and (2) exemplify what I will call PSEUDOPARTITIVES in Estonian. (1) hargi-täisN1 pitchfork-ful põhkuN2 straw.PAR ‘a/the pitchforkful of straw’ (EKSS, entry for hargitäis) (2) parvN1 flock pääsukesiN2 swallow.PL.PAR ‘a/the flock of swallows’ (Nemvalts, 1996:69) Key aspects of the pseudopartitive construction: • One noun (N1) serves a quantifying or measuring role (broadly sp...

In this paper we propose a strategy language for designing single constraint solvers as well as their collaborations. Based on the notions of constraint lter, separator, and sorter, we deene basic strategy operators that allow us to specify single solvers and their collaboration in a uniform way. We exemplify the use of this language by specifying some techniques for solving constraints over ni...

There has accumulated a large amount of literature on confidence interval construction involving lognormal data owing to the fact that many data in scientific inquiries may be approximated by this distribution. Procedures have usually been developed in a piecemeal fashion for a single mean, a single mean with excessive zeros, a difference between two means, and a difference between two differen...

In this paper we propose a strategy language for designing single constraint solvers as well as their collaborations. Based on the notions of constraint lter, separator, and sorter, we deene basic strategy operators that allow us to specify single solvers and their collaboration in a uniform way. We exemplify the use of this language by specifying some techniques for solving constraints over ni...

Human listeners are adept at successfully recovering linguisticallyand socially-relevant information from very brief utterances. Studies using the ‘thin-slicing’ approach show that accurate judgments of the speaker’s emotional state can be made from minimal quantities of speech. The present experiment tested the performance of listeners exposed to thinsliced samples of spoken Brazilian Portugue...

The main objective of this paper is to introduce an alternation-based model of valency lexicon of Czech verbs VALLEX. Alternations describe regular changes in valency structure of verbs – they are seen as transformations taking one lexical unit and return a modified lexical unit as a result. We characterize and exemplify ‘syntactically-based’ and ‘semantically-based’ alternations and their effe...

This work proposes a model to evaluate systems regarding their resilience in handling unexpected disturbances. To exemplify the use of the proposed model, we chose to analyze the World Youth Day (WID), an important event on the global scenario that happened this year in Rio de Janeiro, a city which will host big events in the next few years, like the World Cup and the Olympic Games. From this e...